Nintendo have seemingly shown their true colors with the announcement of Super Mario Run, Mario’s first “true” smartphone game which rather shamelessly copies the overly saturated “endless runner” genre that is already plaguing the market – which mindless fans may absolutely eat up regardless.

The news was delivered courtesy of Shigeru Miyamoto himself at Apple’s September 2016 press event, with nary a twinge of shame crossing his features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgA_qNvm8Mc

Apparently Shigeru Miyamoto had a hand in creating the app himself, likely “inspired” by the thousands of other clones currently available; Super Mario Run will be released on iOS this December and will also have a price, though how much has yet to be disclosed.

Shigeru Miyamoto is a complete hack at this point, Nintendo desperately needs some new young blood. There are so many Nintendo franchises going to waste because of their lack of faith in them. It seems like whenever a game doesn’t sell too well they drop the franchise completely (Metroid, F Zero). Would also be nice to have some new IP’s too.

They were the last holdouts from the original founders of gaming. Sega,EA,SquareEnix,and so on have long cashed out into mobile. I know they plan on Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing. But I could see Punch Out! being on mobile.

I was not talking about the loss of value. If you got in before the AP came out you are doing very well depending on how much you could afford. “In every crisis, there is opportunity.” That is all exchanges. And now days with computers you can lock in the value you’re comfortable with and not worry about it.

At least it’s not freemium trash. Even for an auto runner (it doesn’t seem like an “endless runner” as this article claims) the controls seem pretty tight. Apparently there are multiple different levels and you’ll be able to build your own town using the toads you rescue. I don’t own an iPhone so I’ll wait to pirate an android port.